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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has fired a campaign aide after racially charged Facebook posts surfaced on the aide's account.
The Trump campaign says longtime aide Sam Nunberg was fired.
The website Business Insider reported the posts Friday. They included a racist slur to describe the Rev. Al Sharpton's daughter and references to President Barack Obama as a "Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser" and former Arkansas Gov.

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee admitted to CBS host John Dickerson on Sunday that he did not know of any modern debate that had been won by invoking Nazis.
In an interview with Breitbart News late last month, Huckabee had suggested that President Barack Obama's administration would trigger a second Holocaust by negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran.
"It is so naive that he would trust the Iranians,” Huckabee complained.

In an interview with Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, Face the Nation host John Dickerson ignored new controversial comments from the former Arkansas governor and Fox News host about using the FBI or U. S. military forces to stop legal abortions throughout the country.
On July 31, The Topeka Capitol-Journal reported that Huckabee stated that if he was elected president, he would stop legal abortions from being performed.

New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan agreed with concerns that the paper subjects Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to tougher scrutiny than other 2016 contenders, promising to evaluate the Times' future coverage of Clinton for its fairness.
Sullivan already strongly criticized the paper on July 27 for its now twice-corrected report that relied on anonymous sourcing to claim that two inspectors general had requested a criminal investigation into Clinton's email use.